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Neutron 4.4: Great Performance Improvement

Efficient Investment For Your Growing Business

The biggest challenge for Social Network Admins all time: what script is optimized for performance and can scale up when the site is growing fast?

Here are a few options when it comes to discussion:

Open Source Script and Commercial Social Network Scripts: easy to setup, can run on almost average servers. Mostly built based on existing framework, then it seems to be no problem to run on VPS. However, when it comes to thousands of members, it gets stuck, can not load even scaled to run on very high servers. Technically, these scripts do not support that large scale level. Many technicians say they can get it work with very nice proposal (cost is also high, of course), but the devil is in details.

Expensive and Enterprise Social Network Solutions: basically it can run for thousands of members, but requires very high servers at the beginning; and more servers needed for small increase of members. It’s paid up to number of your site members, not really suitable for a start-up niche social network.

Look no further with a very suitable solution – phpFox Neutron 4.4. phpFox team has spent a year to work on performance improvements, tested on many high traffic sites. Here are benefits you very soon will see when using phpFox Neutron 4.4 script:

Of course you’re likely to have 1M members very soon and your online members over 100K and much more. In this case, it requires enterprise solution. Don’t worry, your phpFox script is built to ready for this. All preparations are done, you just need to ask, our expert will be at your service.

Neutron 4.4: The Great Performance Improvement

Improved to nearly3 times faster than phpFox Neutron 4.3 (*); and more than 4 times faster than phpFox Neutron 4.2 (*)

The more data the site has, the slower 4.3 and 4.2 are, due to not-optimize in query

With certain number of online members, 4.3 and 4.2 might get stuck due to high requests to servers – which we will see further when doing stress test with 4.4. The result for 4.4 will be shown in next section.

4.3 Benchmark Result

4.2 Benchmark Result

(*) Measure with the same size of data:

10,000 members

200,000 membership relation

30,000 item counts per modules: photo, blog, etc.

On the same 8-Core server

Load time is measured over 5 minutes high load with 200 VUs reaching all landing pages of all available default modules: ex. Home, music, photo, blog, forum, marketplace, pages, etc. Neutron 4.4 has Group Application.

Member only network, disable Ajax.

Redis is off and Cache is off.

Neutron 4.4: The High Load Tolerance

Besides comparison with previous versions, we have done many stress tests to make sure phpFox is capable to handle large online members when running on average server configuration.